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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 358. 



Cannon Isaac Taylor, the author of an 

 excellent work on ' The Alphabet ' and other 

 archeological books, died on October 18 at the 

 age of seventy-two years. 



The eleventh congress of Russian Natural- 

 ists and Physicians will meet at St. Petersburg 

 on January 2, and will remain in session for 

 ten to eleven days. The sections into which 

 the association is divided are mathematics and 

 mechanics, astronomy and geodesy, physics, 

 physical geography, geography and statistics, 

 agriculture, chemistry, geology and mineralogy, 

 botany, zoology, anatomy and physiology, 

 scientific medicine, and hygiene. Three days 

 are to be devoted to general sessions and seven 

 days to the meetings of the sections. 



At the recent International Congress of 

 Criminal Anthropology at Amsterdam it was 

 decided that the next congress will be held at 

 Turin in 1906. 



An Australasian Ornithologists' Union is 

 about to hold its first meeting at Adelaide. 

 The society will publish a magazine called 

 The Emu. 



A COMMISSION, under the presidency of M. 

 Leon Bourgeois, has recommended the addition 

 of new laboratories to the Conservatoire des 

 arts et metiers at a cost of about $100,000. 



The Berlin correspondent of the British Med- 

 ical Journal writes that the ' Virchow Day ' 

 lengthened out to a 'Virchow Week,' for the 

 series of ovations that began on Saturday, Oc- 

 tober 12, did not find their close until Friday, 

 October 18. On Monday eveping, October 14, 

 the Imperial Chancellor and Countess von 

 Bulow gave a dinner in honor of Virchow, at 

 which many of the foreign delegates and Berlin 

 notabilities were present. On Tuesday even- 

 ing an imposing public meeting gave evidence 

 of the enthusiasm felt by the Berlin Liberals for 

 Virchow as a politician. Eugen Richter, the 

 great radical orator, made a flaming speech, in 

 which sharp hits at the present political situa- 

 tion alternated with expressions of deepest 

 gratitude for Virchow's untiring, courageous 

 and lifelong labors in the cause of political 

 freedom. That Virchow's political career has 

 been one of real work can be best illustrated by 

 the fact that for twenty-five years he was presi- 



dent of the parliamentary audit committee. 

 On Friday evening the town council and mag- 

 istrates gave their great Virchow banquet in 

 the city hall. What Virchow has done for 

 public hygiene and town sanitation is known 

 all over the world. No one could have put 

 into better words the debt our generation owes 

 him than did Virchow himself, when, in re- 

 turning thanks for the speech in his honor, he 

 said — without mock humility and without van- 

 ity either — that if he was proud of any achieve- 

 ments it must be the achievements in the do- 

 main of public health, since it was by his efforts, 

 through the establishment of the system of 

 drainage which he had recommended and the 

 sewage farms constructed under his directions, 

 that Berlin had become the healthiest city in 

 the world. All the medals, addresses, pieces 

 of statuary and paintings presented to Pro- 

 fessor Virchow by learned societies and public 

 personages are on view in the Central Hall of 

 the Industrial Art Museum. 



The London Times states that the Crystal 

 Palace authorities have decided to hold an 

 American exhibition next year. It will be 

 strictly confined to a display of the wealth, in- 

 dustry, science and art of the United States. 

 The space of the palace will be divided so as 

 to allow the exhibits to be ranged into tea 

 classes, which will be found to cover ex- 

 haustively the vast resources, instructive and 

 interesting, of that country. During the exhi- 

 bition some of the leading American entertain- 

 ments and shows will be introduced, in addition 

 to the regular palace program, and in the 

 grounds characteristic American sports will be 

 conducted by representative teams. An im- 

 portant feature in connection with the exhibi- 

 bition will be the institution of a commercial 

 bureau, under the direction of a committee of 

 representative American and British firms. An 

 American advisory committee has been formed, 

 consisting of the officers, general committee 

 and many prominent members of the American 

 Society in London, who are working in co- 

 operation with Mr. Henry Gillman to make the 

 exhibition the most complete and representa- 

 tive one ever held. The English advisory com- 

 mittee includes the Lord Mayor, Earl Grey, the 

 Earl of Crewe, Sir Douglas Fox, Viscount Dun- 



